Program Mentors Program Mentors Heading link Copy link Joanna Burdette Ovarian cancer; Drug discovery Alessandra Eustaquio Drug discovery and development; Biosynthesis; Synthetic biology; Microbiology Scott Franzblau Drug discovery; High throughput screening assay development; Drug target identification Richard Gemeinhart Drug Delivery Leslyn (Les) Hanakahi DNA repair and cancer biology; Drug target discovery Hyunyoung (Young) Jeong Drug metabolism; Pharmacokinetics Alexander (Shura) Mankin Mechanisms of antibiotic action Terry Moore Drug Discovery; Medicinal chemistry; Therapeutically important protein-protein interactions Brian Murphy Drug discovery from aquatic microorganisms Jimmy Orjala Drug discovery from cyanobacteria and plants Pavel Petukhov Chemical biology; Drug discovery Laura Sanchez Mass spectrometry; Metabolites of pathogenesis; Ovarian cancer; Host-microbe chemical communication Greg Thatcher Mechanistic organic chemistry and synthesis of probes of biological systems; Chemical biology; Chemical toxicology; Drug Douglas Thomas Cancer etiology; Cancer-causing epigenetic modifications; Oncogenic proteins Nora Vazquez-Laslop Mechanisms of antibiotic action